Building on a unique history with ODC from student to dancer to staging director, and now, Co-Artistic Director, Theories of Time is Chong’s first choreographic work on ODC/Dance.  If the quality of this work, and her astute choices of top-notch collaborators, is a gauge of what we can expect from Chong, as she steps more fully into her artistic leadership role, ODC/Dance and San Francisco audiences are in good hands for many years to come.

When the Black Choreographers Festival is in the house, Dance Mission Theater is the place to be! That is if you can get a ticket to these sold-out shows. Celebrating their festival’s 21st birthday founders laura e. ellis (African & African American Performing Arts Coalition) and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes (K*Star*Productions) present two distinct programs over two weekends in late February.

Celebrating the 100 th Anniversary of the founding of their company, Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) returns for the first time since 2016, to UC Berkeley, February 14 & 15. MGDC has been a leader in the evolving art form of modern dance since its founding.  Graham, who revolutionized dance from the 1920’s onward, created 181 dance compositions during her storied career, so there is an abundance of works from which to choose.  For the centennial, the company is touring th

Feats of strength and daring, a 200-pound man flying atop his partner’s shoulders, and dancing dinosaurs, are just some of the treats on offer in Bear Graham’s “Dance Lovers 14” at the Joe Goode Annex this Valentine’s weekend.   I first discovered “Dance Lovers” in 2016 and haven’t missed one since! A heartfelt celebration of love and connection between two people, each year Graham presents a series of duets created and performed by “couples, crushes, and comrades.” “Dance Lo